Library of Congress photos from the 1940s

Books are Weapons, Books-are-Weapons-Poster (cropped)

Build for your Navy

Bullseye! for binoculars

Build for your Navy!

Careless talk costs lives

Dedication, Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma City, June 28, 1941

Don't waste water

Dont tell him what you know about. troop concentrations, departures. arrivals

Don't be a drip!

Eat these every day

Enroll American Merchant Marine

Federal government sponsored classes in war training for industry

Grow it yourself

Have a date with us

He gives 100%, you can lend 10%

Help us preserve your surplus.food

Home safety is home defense

Home safety is front line defense

In national defense industries are open for skilled workers

I pledge allegiance and silence about the war

If you can't go - buy war bonds

Insignia of branch or arm of service

Jobs - get the facts about occupations - free classes for young men and women 16 to 25 yrs.--National Youth Administration of Illinois

Keep mum - the world has ears

Keep mum chum

Keep it to yourself buddy

Lets Censor Our Conversation

Liberty for all

Let me do the talking!

Milk for warmth, WPA poster, 1941

Milk - for warmth

Mobilizing Michigan for farm and factory

Neighborhood fingerprint station

No enemy sub will dare lift its eye if you lend your Zeiss or Bausch & Lomb binoculars to the Navy

No water - no guns

Opening Sunday - January 12, Mason City Art Center

Operators of small boats enlist now! U.S. Coast Guard

Photography exhibition

Report dog bites

Ride together - work together - save rubber for victory

Save scrap for victory!

Sew for victory

Service on the home front

Stamp out the Axis

Stamp out the Axis

Stamp 'em out

Start the day right with a good breakfast

Stop and get your free fag bag

The fly is as deadly as a bomber!!

The nickel and dime store, WPA poster, ca. 1941

This happens when you talk to others about ship sailings

Their health depends on you

This is your air raid protection

Toy sale, WPA poster, 1941

Train to be a nurse's aide

Urgent - volunteers needed at once!

Uniform for engineer replacement center, Fort Belvoir, Va

Visibility zero unless you lend your binoculars to the navy

Volunteer civilian defense

War bonds over 90%